gsbuickman
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Hiya Guys .
I've been meaning to pick myself up another nice pellet rifle because my old Daisy model 881 lever action pump that I've been dragging around for more years than I care to remember has seen better days and it's gotten to the point that it's not even paper plate accurate at 100' anymore, but I guess I keep it around Just for kicks more than anything these days.
Well, late yesterday evening someone posted a Crossman F4 on our local gun Grapevine that peaked my interest so I touched bases with him and he got back to me early this morning about it. I started to do a little research on it and found out it's a break barrel design which I've always liked but it doesn't have that crappy ass spring compression power system in it that I've never liked.
It turns out this rifle is powered by the new nitro gas piston power system & it puts out 1000 - 1200 fps depending on what pellets you're shooting. In a nutshell instead of compressing a spring and releasing it when you squeeze the trigger which causes all kinds of recoil & Barrel harmonic issues that I've never liked, with the nitro gas piston system when you break the barrel to work the action you further compress a compressed nitrogen gas cylinder that drives a gas piston that pushes the air that pushes the pellet out of the chamber and down the barrel when you squeeze the trigger, which I think is a really slick design & it seems to work really well.
Overall it seems to be a really nice air rifle. I'm not real fond of the plastic stock that it's setting in but I do like the thumbhole design and it's actually nicer than a lot of the plastic Tapco stocks that I've seen on other rifles & it does have a nice little rubber recoil pad on it. He also upgraded this from the cheap scope that was on it to a still cheap but nicer CV Life 3_9x40. It has a nice rifled bull barrel and I do like the safety in front of the trigger. The safety is on a positive detent and when its flipped back against the trigger it locks the trigger in place so the rifle can't be fired, but when you flip the safety forward away from me trigger unlocks the trigger group it's ready to fire. I was just outside doing some shooting off my balcony into the tree in the yard and I'm impressed. This thing is extremely accurate and it's just as loud if not louder than most of my 22's with about the same or a tad less recoil then most of my 22's. All in all it's the nicest pellet rifle I've had to date and it's far better than the 1000 fps spring-powered break barrel piece of crap that I picked up in a trade and then sold last summer in every way possible. In the end I think I got a damn nice deal for $50, now I wonder what it'll take or if I can find a nice laminate or wood thumbhole stock to drop the barrel and receiver in ...
I've been meaning to pick myself up another nice pellet rifle because my old Daisy model 881 lever action pump that I've been dragging around for more years than I care to remember has seen better days and it's gotten to the point that it's not even paper plate accurate at 100' anymore, but I guess I keep it around Just for kicks more than anything these days.
Well, late yesterday evening someone posted a Crossman F4 on our local gun Grapevine that peaked my interest so I touched bases with him and he got back to me early this morning about it. I started to do a little research on it and found out it's a break barrel design which I've always liked but it doesn't have that crappy ass spring compression power system in it that I've never liked.
It turns out this rifle is powered by the new nitro gas piston power system & it puts out 1000 - 1200 fps depending on what pellets you're shooting. In a nutshell instead of compressing a spring and releasing it when you squeeze the trigger which causes all kinds of recoil & Barrel harmonic issues that I've never liked, with the nitro gas piston system when you break the barrel to work the action you further compress a compressed nitrogen gas cylinder that drives a gas piston that pushes the air that pushes the pellet out of the chamber and down the barrel when you squeeze the trigger, which I think is a really slick design & it seems to work really well.
Overall it seems to be a really nice air rifle. I'm not real fond of the plastic stock that it's setting in but I do like the thumbhole design and it's actually nicer than a lot of the plastic Tapco stocks that I've seen on other rifles & it does have a nice little rubber recoil pad on it. He also upgraded this from the cheap scope that was on it to a still cheap but nicer CV Life 3_9x40. It has a nice rifled bull barrel and I do like the safety in front of the trigger. The safety is on a positive detent and when its flipped back against the trigger it locks the trigger in place so the rifle can't be fired, but when you flip the safety forward away from me trigger unlocks the trigger group it's ready to fire. I was just outside doing some shooting off my balcony into the tree in the yard and I'm impressed. This thing is extremely accurate and it's just as loud if not louder than most of my 22's with about the same or a tad less recoil then most of my 22's. All in all it's the nicest pellet rifle I've had to date and it's far better than the 1000 fps spring-powered break barrel piece of crap that I picked up in a trade and then sold last summer in every way possible. In the end I think I got a damn nice deal for $50, now I wonder what it'll take or if I can find a nice laminate or wood thumbhole stock to drop the barrel and receiver in ...